Netherlands Media Report: Vlissingen port cocaine smuggling soars, surpassing official figures by 6.3 tonnes
Cocaine smuggling through the port of Vlissingen appears to be much more rampant than previously thought. A staggering 6,300 kilograms of the drug, beyond what was already a record haul, were discovered to have passed through the port last year, according to new data from the Zeeland-West Brabant police, RTL Nieuws reported.
That total adds 54 percent to the amount of cocaine known to have passed through the facility in 2023. The additional volume of cocaine, which has a street value of about 500 million euros, was found by authorities in other European countries, police said. Investigators in those countries and the Netherlands worked backwards to determine that the drugs arrived in Europe as part of various cargo shipments which first entered via the Vlissingen port.
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